The Alaouite dynasty distinguished itself in the 19th century by maintaining Moroccan independence while other states in the region succumbed to European interests.

Nationalist political parties, which subsequently arose under the French protectorate, based their arguments for Moroccan independence on such World War II declarations as the Atlantic Charter ( a joint U. S .- British statement that set forth, among other things, the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they live ).

Through this agreement with Spain in 1956 and another in 1958, Moroccan control over certain Spanish-ruled areas was restored, though attempts to claim other Spanish possessions through military action were less successful.

More than any other issue since independence, the objective of securing Western Sahara had unified the Moroccan nation.

MT has announced plans to create a fibre-optic network connecting the Moroccan cities Laâyoune and Dakhla to Nouadhibou, which would ultimately be extended to other North African countries.

Moroccan cuisine is extremely refined, thanks to Morocco's interactions and exchanges with other cultures and nations over the centuries.

This spurred political protest, as former " disappeared " and other human rights-campaigners began holding illegal demonstrations against Moroccan rule.

All trade and other economic activities are controlled by the Moroccan government, as usual in Western Sahara.

Although Morocco claims that no recognition is required, Moroccan sovereignty over the territory is supported by the Arab League and by some other states as a policy of deliberate ambiguity.

Approximately 10 % of the population consists of immigrants from Western countries, while 21 % of the population is of non-Western origin ( 9 % Moroccan, 5 % Turkish, 3 % Surinamese and Dutch Caribbean and 5 % of other countries ).

In the 19th century, modern Spanish and French gradually replaced Haketia and Judeo-Arabic as mother tongue among most Moroccan Sephardim and other North African Sephardim.

However, after the construction of the Moroccan Wall this changed into tactics more resembling conventional warfare, with a focus on artillery, snipers and other long-range attacks.

On the other hand, under Moroccan standards, a grand vizier can lead a government by simply serving as an advisor from his own residency, even if the body is wearing out.

Among other things, the documents accuse Pim Fortuyn of having sex with under age Moroccan boys.

It is also home to a large Moroccan population and other immigrant communities.

Specifically, Article 6 of the treaty states that if any captured Americans, be it done by Moroccans or by other Barbary Coast states dock at a Moroccan city, said Americans would be set free and be under the protection of the Moroccan state.

So do most other Semitic languages, although Modern Israeli Hebrew permits initial two-consonant clusters ( e. g. pkak " cap "; dlat " pumpkin "), and Moroccan Arabic, under Berber influence, allows strings of several consonants.

Congolese-Belgian Princesse Mansia M ' Bila, Rwandan-Belgian Cécile Kayirebwa and Dieudonné Kabongo led this wave that soon incorporated Argentine tango music, Moroccan oud and other music from around the world.

Macías Nguema and the six other defendants sentenced to death were executed by a Moroccan firing squad at Black Beach Prison at 6 pm on the same day.

The Moroccan border with Algeria is just east of Oujda, on the other side of the border is the Algerian town of Maghnia.

The Muzika Mizrahit movement started in the 1950s with homegrown performers in the ethnic neighborhoods of Israel — the predominantly Yemenite " Kerem Hatemanim " neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Moroccan neighborhoods and neighborhoods of Iranian and Iraqi immigrants — who played at weddings and other events.

In the late 1970s Ag Alhabib joined with other musicians in the Tuareg rebel community, exploring the radical chaabi protest music of Moroccan groups like Nass El Ghiwane and Jil Jilala ; Algerian pop rai ; and western rock and pop artists like Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin, Carlos Santana, Dire Straits, Jimi Hendrix, Boney M, and Bob Marley.

Ultimately, the term came to designate Jewish quarters in other Moroccan cities.

Lamb is also consumed, but as North African sheep breeds store most of their fat in their tails, Moroccan lamb does not have the pungent flavour that Western lamb and mutton have.

The Chafarinas Islands are one of the Spanish ruled territories on North Africa off the Moroccan coast known as plazas de soberanía.

Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (), in ancient times Badis or Bades, is a Spanish rock ( plaza de soberanía ) in North Africa off the Moroccan coast.

Bowles was a pioneer in the field of North African ethnomusicology with his field recordings from 1959 to 1961 of traditional Moroccan music for the US Library of Congress.

* Dobrinsky, Herbert C., A treasury of Sephardic laws and customs: the ritual practices of Syrian, Moroccan, Judeo-Spanish and Spanish and Portuguese Jews of North America.

Germany's move was aimed at testing the relationship between Britain and France and possibly intimidate Britain into an alliance with Germany, as well as enforcing claims for compensation for acceptance of effective French control of the North African kingdom, where France's pre-eminence had been upheld by the 1906 Algeciras Conference following the Tangier Crisis ( or First Moroccan Crisis ) of 1905-1906.

At least one species, the Moroccan glass lizard, comes from North Africa, and several species live in the south-eastern United States including the barrier islands off the Atlantic coast of Florida.

Most of the North African countries have several similar dishes, sometimes almost the same dish with a different name ( the Moroccan tangia and the Tunisian coucha are both essentially the same dish: a meat stew prepared in an urn and cooked overnight in a public oven ), sometimes with a slight change in ingredients and cooking style.

Sebastian felt driven to revive lost glories by intervening in North Africa, influenced by the events such as the defense of Mazagan in 1562 from a Moroccan siege.

Though in its modern form, malouf is likely very dissimilar to any music played more than four centuries ago, it does have its roots in Spain and Portugal, and is closely related to genres with a similar history throughout North Africa, including malouf's Libyan cousin, Algerian gharnati and Moroccan ala or Andalusi.

* Herbert C. Dobrinsky: A treasury of Sephardic laws and customs: the ritual practices of Syrian, Moroccan, Judeo-Spanish and Spanish and Portuguese Jews of North America.

Orris root is often included as one of the many ingredients of Ras el hanout, a blend of herbs and spices used across the Middle East and North Africa, primarily associated with Moroccan cuisine.

North Africa is a relatively thin strip of land between the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean, stretching from Moroccan Atlantic coast to Egypt and Sudan.

During the 1950s and ' 60s, and into the 1970s, all of the North African states gained independence from their colonial European rulers, except for a few small Spanish colonies on the far northern tip of Morocco, and parts of the Sahara region, which went from Spanish to Moroccan rule.

Throughout Moroccan history, Morocco has hosted many peoples, in addition to the indigenous Berbers, coming from the East ( Phoenicians, Jews, and Arabs ), South ( Sub-Saharan African ), and North ( Romans and Vandals ).

In the post-war period, Spain was initially still heavily influenced by events in North Africa, particularly surrounding its colony of Western Sahara The first of these conflicts, the Ifni War ( 1956-8 ) saw Spanish forces, including Spain's first paratroop unit, clash with the Moroccan Liberation Army, a Moroccan state backed insurgency movement.

During this century and up to 1910, around 1000 families of Moroccan Jews migrated to Amazonia, in the North of Brazil, during the rubber boom.

These two levels can be correlated with chron E23r of the Newark Basin, therefore the North American CAMP Basalts postdate the Tr – J boundary whereas part of the Moroccan CAMP was erupted within the Triassic.

According to, geochemical analyses based upon titanium, magnesium and silicon contents show a certain correlation between the lower North American lava flows and the Lower Unit of the Moroccan CAMP, thus reinforcing the conclusion that the Moroccan basalts postdate the Tr-J boundary.